Posts Tagged ‘g1’

Jeffrey was wondering about the battery life of Android and Nexus phones as compared to iPhones.

I can’t compare anything to an iPhone, but I can report on my Android after about six weeks of use.

The battery life specs, according to the User Manual (PDF here), are

Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery: Capacity: 1150 mAh

Talk time:Up to 350 minutes for WCDMA
Up to 406 minutes for GSM

Standby time:Up to 402 hours for WCDMA
Up to 319 hours for GSM

(Approximations based on the phone manufacturer’s lab tests.)

I have found the “talk time” spec to be reasonably accurate.

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By default, the phone is limited to installing applications from the Android Market. It seems to be similar to a Linux package repo (or “repository”):

• The phone maintains a database of installed programs.
• When I tap to go to the marketplace, it compares that database with the market place database and tells me which files are already installed.

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A G1. I’ve spent the last couple of days messing with it. Santa did good.

I like it and figured others, who may have seen one but not actually messed with one, might like to know a little more about it.

This model has both a hardware keyboard and a touch screen with a software keyboard; it is 3G and wireless capable.

Setting up the phone requires setting up a Google account and automatically turns on Gmail. I have no desire to use Gmail, but I figured, “Hey! I can use a throwaway account!” and went with the flow. I quickly got four welcome messages from the “Gmail team.” (They will probably be the last Gmail messages I get.) It also includes access to Google Docs, but regular readers will know I also have no interest in that.

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Last Sunday I was at a dinner of local geeks. The big thing was Abrahams’ new Developer G1. Besides the iPhone and the G1, I was the only one with a Windows PC Smartphone. So I actually made that comment and it actually went down this way.

Don’t worry. I am not buying a Blackberry Storm.

I downloaded the SDK (Software Development Kit) the other day to play with Android. Although it’s not an HTC G1, it will definitely give me an idea of what to expect. I am hoping it will go on an older phone. We’ll see.

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